I suppose most space-tier countries make research on the theme of muting/blinding the satellites. It is just common sense.
I thought it was denial of capacity. Satellites loaded with small ball bearings wrapped around high explosives to not only destroy satellites in a short term low orbit version of kessler syndrome, but to keep LEO full of satellite destroying shit for a while to deny relaunching new satellites.
A 500km orbit like Starlink means unassisted objects can stay up for almost 10 years. Long enough for war, short enough to not permanently damage space.
Each new technology immediately raises two questions: how do we destroy it and how do we use it for destruction.
Three questions actually.
Can we use it for porn?
i bet theres an xkcd for this
That’s always the 4th question
Seconded.
“Can I fuck it?”
If you’re brave enough, anything is a dildo.
This leads to the question of where I can find rule 34 of this.
Watch these satellites get DESTROYED by an invader!
Everywhere but the EU
I’m sure Satlink has been extensively trialled for that use too.
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All you need to do is hit the right spot on a satellite with an ablative laser to make it de-orbit.
Yeah and that is not how that works, that is not how physics works and that is not how anything works.
A laser heating one side of anything enough to ablate material in space will alter it’s trajectory, it’s entirely possible that objects in low earth orbit would be forced to return to earth. That’s been proposed as a possible way to deal with all the random crap in space.
But im sure musk went all out giving these satellites the best money can get./s
Yeah, if you take out lots of real world issues, maybe. In reality it is extremely hard for lasers to do any of that over enormous distances, especially through an atmosphere
